Nov 16

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Nov 16, 2018 Week: 46 \ Day: 320

86004 Today: H 55° \ L 26° \ Average Sky Cover: 0% 

Wind:   12mph\Gusts:  19mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High:

70°[1981]   Record Low: -1°[1964]

Nov Averages: 51°\23°

Today’s Quote

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney

Random Tidbits

The criteria vary from state to state, but as a rule, each area works closely with the Department of Natural Resources to review reported automobile/deer accidents. A "Deer Crossing" sign is generally erected whenever a deer has been hit within the previous 12 months

In 2004, the Federal Highway Administration approved the use of a new font, Clearview, on federal road signs after tests showed that drivers found Clearview easier to read than the current Highway Gothic font.

In 2004, the Federal Highway Administration approved the use of a new font, Clearview, on federal road signs after tests showed that drivers found Clearview easier to read than the current Highway Gothic font.

Observances This Week

           

9-17

National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week Link  

10-16

Geography Awareness Week Link 
National Nurse Practioner's Week Link  Link
Perioperative Nurse Week Link
International Fraud Awareness Week Link   
National Split Pea Soup Week Link
Snowcare For Troops Awareness Week
World Kindness Week 16  Link  
National Book Awards Week
National Global Entrepreneurship Week Link

15-17

National Donor Sabbath

16-23

International Games Week

Observances for Today

           

Button Day

Guinness World Record Day Link 
Have a Party With Your Bear Day

International Tolerance Day  Link
International Games Day (Libraries) Link 

National Button Day Link
National Fast Food Day

Playmobil's National Day of Play Link 
Teddy Bear Day (Historic)  Link

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1500’s                                         

1532 Francisco Pizarro captures Inca Emperor Atahualpa after a surprise ambush at Cajamarca

1581 Tsar Ivan the Terrible attacks his son and heir, Ivan Ivanovich, with a scepter after an argument leading to the latter's death three days later

1700’s                                         

1764 Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac

1800’s                                         

1824 New York City's Fifth Avenue opens for business

1841 Life preservers made of cork are patented by Napoleon Guerin (NYC)

1871 National Rifle Association is first chartered in the State of New York

1900’s                                         

1901 Booker T. Washington and his family are invited to dine at the White House with Teddy and Edith Roosevelt, prompting condemnation from the South

1907 Oklahoma becomes the United States 46th state

1914 Federal Reserve System formally opens

1925 American Association for Advancement of Atheism forms (NY)

1938 LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland

1945 Founding of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)

1961 US President JFK decides to increase military aid to South Vietnam without committing US combat troops

1969 1968 Mỹ Lai massacre of between 347 and 504 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by US soldiers is first reported

1973 US President Richard Nixon authorizes construction of the Alaskan pipeline

1973 Skylab 4 launched into Earth orbit

1982 Agreement reached ending 57 day football strike

2000’s                                         

2002 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein says that he had to accept UN Resolution 1441 because the United States and Israel had shown their "claws and teeth" and declared unitlateral war on the Iraqi people

2015 Largest diamond discovered in more than a century, a 1,111 carat stone found in the Karowe mine, Botswana

2017 Leonardo da Vinci's painting "Salvator Mundi" sells for $450.3 million at auction in New York, world record price for any artwork

2017 US senator Al Franken accused of groping and forcibly kissing a woman

My Rambling Thoughts

Didn’t have to get up at the crack of dawn, but still got up early. Made it to Sam’s for my weekly shopping there. Still a little chilly but Sam’s doesn’t open until 10 so by then, it was decent.

Nice to see the new Congress arriving in DC, seeing their new offices. Some there haven’t been declared winners, but what the heck, can’t miss out, just in case.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@92- Gene Amdahl,

American computer scientist who designed the IBM mainframe, born in Flandreau, South Dakota (d. 2015)

90- William "Clu" Gulager,

American actor (Virginian, Survivors, The Tall Man), born in Holdenville, Oklahoma

80’s

@89- Burgess Meredith,

American actor (Mr Novak, The Penguin in Batman, Rocky), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1997)

@87- José Saramago,

Portuguese writer and Nobel laureate, born in Azinhaga, Santarém, Portugal (d. 2010)

70’s

@71- Daws Butler,

animation voice (Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound), born in Toledo, Ohio (d. 1988) heart attack

60’s

@65- Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert,

French Enlightenment philosopher and mathematician (Encyclopédie), born in Paris (d. 1783) kidney disease

50’s

51- Lisa Bonet,

actress (Cosby Show, Different World, Angel Heart), born in San Francisco

40’s

41- Maggie Gyllenhaal,

American actress and producer (Donnie Darko, The Dark Knight), born in NYC

20’s

25-Pete Davidson,

comedian, SNL

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@98-2016 Jay Forrester,

American engineer, invented random-access magnetic core memory

@94-2006 Milton Friedman,

American economist, Nobel Prize Economics 1976

@92-2005 Ralph Edwards,

American TV host (This is Your Life)

80’s

@87-1966 Cluny MacPherson,

Canadian inventor of the gas mask

70’s

@79-1961 Sam Rayburn,

Speaker of the House for 17 years

@71-1950 "Dr. Bob" Smith,

American physician and co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, colon cancer

50’s

@59-1960 Clark Gable,

actor (Gone With the Wind), blood clot

40’s

@41-1885 Louis Riel,

Canadian rebel leader and "Father of Manitoba", hanged for treason